Compensation and Organizational Performance Compensation and Organizational Performance is a research-oriented textbook concerned with the relationship between compensation systems and overall firm performance. It provides a thorough and comprehensive review of the vast literatures relevant to compensation, revisits debates grounded in different theoretical perspectives, providing insights from diverse disciplines such as management, economics, sociology, and psychology. It amplifies previous discussions with the latest empirical findings extracted from the scholarly community, offering solid bases that explain compensation, its dynamics, and its contribution to overall firm performance.

This book is extremely current, analyzing recent topics in executive compensation, such as pay in high-technology firms, managerial risk taking, rewards in family companies, and the link between compensation and social responsibility and ethical issues, among others. In Contrast to traditional compensation texts, this book emphasizes: The role of managerial pay, its importance, determinants, and impact on organizations: The design of compensation programs in particular settings (Eg., high-tech industries, family firms, polluting sectors) and A strategic perspective of compensation administration, rather than a functional view point.